Distance from Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Tokyo (Japan) are 18,567 km apart — that's 11,537 miles or 10,025 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 18,567 km · 11,537 mi · 10,025 nmi
- Initial bearing Rio de Janeiro → Tokyo
- 350° (N)
- Initial bearing Tokyo → Rio de Janeiro
- 12° (NNE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 22 h 30 min
- Time zones
- Rio de Janeiro UTC-03:00 · Tokyo UTC+09:00 (+12 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 654 min — the sun rises later in Rio de Janeiro
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Rio de Janeiro
- -22.9064, -43.1822
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 08:05 UTC / 21:10 UTC
- Tokyo
- 35.6895, 139.6917
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:10 UTC / 07:41 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.